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JSON Formatting for Humans and CI Pipelines

Pretty-print locally, minify in production, validate in GitHub Actions.

ToolBox Editorial Team

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Diff noise hides real changes. Normalize formatting before review.

Prettier vs strict schema

Formatting fixes whitespace; schemas catch missing keys.

CI snippet

- run: npx ajv compile -s schema.json

Redact secrets locally

Never paste production tokens into public formatters—use offline tools first.

Explore regex testing next for nested string parsing.

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